RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-07 Thread joseph
Trying turning polling on in the kernel on the ethernet NIC you are using. SOunds like an interrupt issue. Set to 1000 to 3000 depending on how responsive you need it to be joseph On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 13:22, Muhannad Asfour wrote: On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:20, Robert Covell wrote:

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-06 Thread Muhannad Asfour
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!! On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:03, Peter Kostouros wrote: Not sure this is much help, but I have been getting many hard locks too, from about a kernel I built around the 27th January. My symptoms are that under a relatively heavy CPU

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Covell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Muhannad Asfour Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!! Hello. I've recently faced a rather odd issue that I've

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Forrest W. Christian
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Robert Covell wrote: haven't come up with anything as I stated earlier. I'm not overclocking or anything if that's what you're wondering. If anyone could assist me in any way shape or form to get this working, I would appreciate it very very much. Also, if you

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:23, Forrest W. Christian wrote: On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Robert Covell wrote: haven't come up with anything as I stated earlier. I'm not overclocking or anything if that's what you're wondering. If anyone could assist me in any way shape or form to get this

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Tuc
I have seen things like this that are not software related at all but due to a faulty power supply. Two second story about faulty power supplies. We had someone integrating machines for us, and we would test them over the net. Our test was to compile perl. (Don't ask me

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:20, Robert Covell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Muhannad Asfour Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 19:23, Peter Kostouros wrote: Hi Muhannad Your dmesg output had the following: lock order reversal 1st 0xc2b5d230 process lock (process lock) @ ../../../kern/kern_descrip.c:2104 2nd 0xc2b5bd34 filedesc structure (filedesc structure) @

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Muhannad Asfour
occasionally terminates (abruptly). I do not even get core dumps. -Original Message- From: Muhannad Asfour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2003 11:27 AM To: Peter Kostouros Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT

RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Muhannad Asfour
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!! On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:03, Peter Kostouros wrote: Not sure this is much help, but I have been getting many hard locks too, from about a kernel I built around the 27th January. My symptoms are that under a relatively heavy CPU

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-05 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
Check your RAM.http://www.memtest86.com/ Check your BIOS settings. Try running the system with the failsafe settings if your BIOS has that. If all else fails put the debug options into the kernel, add a serial console, and see if you can break into ddb. --On Tuesday, February 04, 2003

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-04 Thread mmca
On 4 Feb, Muhannad Asfour wrote: Hello. I've recently faced a rather odd issue that I've never seen before. I bought a new server (specs below), and I loaded it up with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (I know, I know, not for a production environment, but this is a personal server). Now, whenever I

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Feb, Muhannad Asfour wrote: Hello. I've recently faced a rather odd issue that I've never seen before. I bought a new server (specs below), and I loaded it up with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (I know, I know, not for a production

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:49, Laszlo Vagner wrote: Muhannad Asfour wrote: Hello. I've recently faced a rather odd issue that I've never seen before. I bought a new server (specs below), and I loaded it up with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE (I know, I know, not for a production environment, but this

Re: Server locking hard -- A LOT!!!

2003-02-04 Thread Muhannad Asfour
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 00:39, Matt Rudderham wrote: Hi, You're DMESG is only showing those disks as running at UDMA33, Verify your cabling and go for some high quality 80Pin cables, this should make a big difference, I find FreeBSD sometimes has a few quirks in this area, but nothing concrete